Commentary
-During
the pilgrimage season the Prophet would call people to Islaam but now began to
seek physical protection and a place to migrate to. Abu Jahl also increased in
his attempts to defame the honour of the Prophet by continuing to call him a
madman and a liar
-It
is called ‘Aqabah because it happened near the Jamarat at Mina.
-Al-Madeenah
at that time were made up of Jews, and two Arab tribes known as the Aws and the
Khazraj. The two tribes are named after two brothers from the tribe of Banu
Haarithah, from the lineage of Qahtan. Aws was the elder brother of Khazraj.
Linguistically,
Aws means to be giving and generous
Khazraj
means ‘cool breeze’.
The
Khazraj had political allegiances with the Mushriks of Makkah and the Aws had
alliances with the Jews in al-Madeenah.
-When
they came to Hajj, they heard the call of Tawheed and the recitation of the
Quran and openly proclaimed their Islam in Makkah.
They
went back to al-Madeenah and agreed to give Da’wah to those there until people
accepted, hence were called the Ansaar.
-Allah
honoured the Aws and the Khazraj and called them al-Ansaar, as stated by Anas
bin Malik in Sahih al-Bukhari.
-The
first Bay’ah was to believe and support but the second one was to give
allegiance to death – which means to help set up a state and military support.
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